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Atitude dos homens usuários dos serviços de saúde, no centro de saúde do chamanculo, em relação ao planeamento familiar
Attitude of male users of health services at the chamanculo health center towards family planning family planning

Introdução: As políticas em relação ao planeamento familiar, vem desde muito tempo se dedicando principalmente às mulheres, mesmo sabendo-se que os homens têm um papel importante a desempenhar neste sentido, podendo suas atitudes interferir, positiva ou negativamente, na decisão das suas companhe...

How point-of-care testing could drive innovation in global health

N. Engl. j. med; 368 (24), 2023
The investment in health services in low- and middle-income countries has increased substantially in recent years.1 Such investment has been led by unprecedented efforts to combat major diseases, enabled by the availability of lower-cost and effective drug regimens for treatment and prophylaxis, along wi...

Increased peripartum mortality associated with maternal subclinical malaria in Mozambique

Malar. j. (Online); 22 (182), 2023
Background: Plasmodium falciparum infection in pregnant women in sub-Saharan Africa is often asymptomatic. As these forms of malaria are often submicroscopic and difficult to diagnose by conventional methods (microscopy and/or rapid diagnostic test), diagnosis requires the use of molecular techniques suc...

Measuring the burden of SARS-CoV-2 infection among persons living with HIV and healthcare workers and its impact on service delivery in Mozambique: protocol of a prospective cohort study

BMJ Open; 13 (6), 2023
Introduction: As COVID-19 continues to spread globally and within Mozambique, its impact among immunosuppressed persons, specifically persons living with HIV (PLHIV), and on the health system is unknown in the country. The 'COVid and hIV' (COVIV) study aims to investigate: (1) the seroprevalence and sero...

Long-term impacts of an urban sanitation intervention on enteric pathogens in children in Maputo city, Mozambique: study protocol for a cross-sectional follow-up to the Maputo Sanitation (MapSan) trial 5 years postintervention

BMJ Open; 13 (6), 2023
Introduction We previously assessed the effect of an onsite sanitation intervention in informal neighbourhoods of urban Maputo, Mozambique on enteric pathogen detection in children after 2 years of follow-up (Maputo Sanitation (MapSan) trial, ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT02362932). We found significant reducti...

BOHEMIA a cluster randomized trial to assess the impact of an endectocide-based one health approach to malaria in Mozambique: baseline demographics and key malaria indicators

Malar. j. (Online); 22 (1), 2023
Many geographical areas of sub-Saharan Africa, especially in rural settings, lack complete and up-to-date demographic data, posing a challenge for implementation and evaluation of public health interventions and carrying out large-scale health research. A demographic survey was completed in Mopeia distri...

Impact and Cost-Effectiveness of Alternative Human Papillomavirus Vaccines for Preadolescent Girls in Mozambique: A Modelling Study

Mozambique has one of the highest rates of cervical cancer in the world. Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination was introduced in 2021. This study evaluated the health and economic impact of the current HPV vaccine (GARDASIL® hereafter referred to as GARDASIL-4) and two other vaccines (CECOLIN® and CER...

Tracking SARS-CoV-2 introductions in Mozambique using pandemic-scale phylogenies: a retrospective observational study

Lancet Glob. Health; 11 (6), 2023
From the start of the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak, global sequencing efforts have generated an unprecedented amount of genomic data. Nonetheless, unequal sampling between high-income and low-income countries hinders the implementation of genomic surveillance systems at the global and local level. Filling the kno...

Satisfação e percepção dos utentes de serviços de saúde em Maputo sobre a qualidade do cuidado
Satisfaction aned perception of health service users in Maputo about the quality of car

O acesso aos serviços de saúde e a qualidade desses serviços estão intrinsecamente interligados e desempenham um papel fundamental na promoção do direito à saúde. Entretanto, o acesso à saúde não se restringe apenas à existência de serviços, mas é igualmente determinado por uma multiplicid...

Plano de comunicação e campanha da escola saudável 2023
Communication Plan and Healthy School Campaign 2023

A Escola Saudável (ES) é uma iniciativa no âmbito do projecto intitulado “Os determinantes sociais da saúde: a melhor estratégia contra a covid-19 em maputo (2021-2023)”, que está sendo implementado pela Medicus Mundi em parceria com o Pelouro de Saúde e Acção Social do Conselho Municipal de...